Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-05

Duluth is organizing a travelling band c
I female musicians.
The school at Appleton has been , oscd b
the board OF health.
Rochester wants electricity for lighting pul
poses instead Of gas.
Somebody is getting rid Of counterfeit ST
yer dollars at Shakopee.
The Duluth News has advanced It's adver
Using rale % per cent.
l.. w Rowley an old citizen Of Winon
county. died al Ut.ca on the 18th inst.
The real estate transfers al st. Paul las
week numbered 439 and amounted to 81, SIS,
ego.
The Rev. DR.. Thomas of st. Paul has &C
cepted the Office OF assistant bishop of Kan
sas.
The Minneapolis authorities propose tn
try roads.
Several cases malignant diphtheria are re
ported In Norwegian families near Palmer
Waseca county.
Tom Shields, the Minneapolis athletr, I:
running a gymnasium and training school -
Wichita, Kan.
Two Pennsylvania gentlemen have beer
looking Hastings over, and propose to bore
for natural gas.
Lyon county farmers climb over snowdrifts
ten and fifteen feet high and feed and water
cattle through the roofs OF thei- barns.
The feed mill of II. l.. Hanson, Of Zum,
brota, was burned on the 18th. II was the
first fire in the village for over q year.
John Pawlitscheck, one Of the commission.
ers OF Jackson county, died at Heron Lake on
the i7th inst, from the effects Of a kick from
a horse.
Jacob MInker of Hasingts, a Mexican war
veteran, has put in a claim for So, 936 pension
years old.
The Good Templars' lodges Of the sixteenth
district, comprising the counties OF Ramsay,
Washington, Dakota and Rice, met at Hast
In gs ou the 21st inst.
An election is to be held I'm Blue Earth
county March s, on the proposition to bond
the county for $4,000 to complete the build
Ing OF the court house.
Halvor Gisleson, who was arrested at Albert
Lea charged with stealing a watch from Ingc-
bait Briley, was held In $500 to appear before
the grand jury at the next term Of court.
The Moorhead Farmers alliance passed a
resolution Of condemnation and censure on
Hon. f. Matson, for voting recently against
the agricultural interests in the legislature.
The Rochester board Of trade has returned
from its examination Of the twine factory at
Champaign, ILL.,, auG reports faycrsbly on the
granting Of bonus for It's removal 10 the
former city.
Mrs. John Dowd, Of Wlnona, was found
dead in bed at her home Saturday morning.
She retired about 10 O'Clock Friday evening in
| apparently good health, and her husband was
shocked to ind her dead.
A building and Loan association has been
Organized at Albert Lea with 500, 900 capital
stock. The officers are. President, A.. ".
White: vice president, W. BIel; secretary,
VIM. G. McAdam; treasurer, b. p. Hibbs.
A meeting was held at CroOkston on the
21st inst. to take action IN opposition to the
bill TO divide Polk county. John Cromb,
VIM. Anglin and VIM. Box were sent to st.
Pau to work against the passag. of the bill
A protest against the passage Of the bill.
authorizing the organization Of a municipal
! court at Taribault has been circulated there,
! aad has received the signatures OF about 100
of the business men.
jacob Bather, accused Of stealing from
Henry Lampart OF Kosota, was arrested at
st. Paul and bad a hearing before Justice
French. of Lake Emily. Batner was commit
ted to Jail to await the next session OF court.
The stolen money was found on his person.
The Minnesota State Historical society has
Issued a proclamation setting forth that Capt.
willard Glaciers claims as the original dis
coyerer of the source of the Mississippi are
'sbaseless and false" All 'learned socie-
ties, are requested to join in repudiating
him.
The following state patents were issued
from Washington last week: &. Buisson,
Wabasha, rafting boom pin; A. l.. Conklin,
Spring Valley, rivet receptacle; George Nc
Cushing, st. Paul, reverse gear for steam en-
gines; w. II. Farnham, Minneapolis, and c.
b. Askew, st. Paul, life preserving appar-
atus: r. r. Tichenor and p. Walker, Hen
ming, stump pul'er.
Hon. Freeman J. Collier, judge OF probate,
has appointed Miss Lizzie Mccarthy as guar
dian of her uncle, John Mccarthy, the allega-
ton being that her uncle is an habitual
drupkard, and the proceeding is a prelimt-
nary move for placing lin in the asylum for
inebriates. The parties are residents OF Wa
basha.
Lewis Larson, a half-witted fellow, WAS ar
rested on the 18th inst. by Sheriff Lenfest on
| complaint Of Andrew Loberg, Of Ham Lake.
for ravishipg the six-year-old daughter OF the
latter. Larson is ffty-four years old and a
Norwegian, and has worked for Loberg for
the past two years. The examination shows
shat he enticed the little girl into the barn,
| and there committed the deed. He was bound
over TO await the action OF the grand jury in
| September.
The new Episcopal church at Albert Lea Is
now completed, paid for aud ready to lie dedi-
Gated. y. w, Arey donated the lots aud
over 81, 600 In cash.
VIM. Couplin, who has been a railroad con-